Last season, the Virginia men’s soccer team graduated only two seniors and featured a team that had 18 freshmen and sophomores.
Following the Virginia football team’s blowout loss to Oregon, I was feeling burned out as a sports fan. The rest of my weekend—consisting of running into Virginia basketball players and watching Week 1 NFL action—has me feeling re-energized.
The No. 5 Virginia women’s soccer team added two more blowout victories to its resume this weekend, closing non-conference play with a perfect 6-0 record for the first time since 2004.
A crowd of 58,502 was on hand to witness the brutal 59-10 thrashing No. 2 Oregon doled out to Virginia Saturday afternoon, the largest crowd at Scott Stadium since a 38-0 blowout loss to Virginia Tech in the final game of the 2011 season. That fact was not lost on many of the Cavalier players.
Oregon’s speed and athleticism were on full display from kickoff Saturday, as the No. 2 Ducks’ (2-0) Marcus Mariota and De’Anthony Thomas repeatedly gashed the Virginia (1-1) defense in a 49-point drubbing at Scott Stadium.
The Cavaliers (1-2-0) were fell to physical Clemson (3-0-0), 2-0, in their third game of the season.
“The Skinny” for football, men’s and women’s soccer, field hockey and volleyball games this weekend.
U.Va. Student Body: Thank you for your support last Saturday at Scott Stadium! Your energy and enthusiasm were crucial to the team’s success in our victory over BYU. After a great start to the season, we need to keep our momentum going this weekend.
In the nearly 20 years since Nike co-founder Phil Knight first approached the Oregon athletic department and endeavored to build a previously staid football program in his company’s own image and likeness, the Ducks have adopted a provocative, dynamic visual style which has triggered a revolution in how college football teams and what they wear function as branding vehicles.
Our athlete columnists makes the case for loving—or at least not hating—Johnny Football.
Ask a member of the Virginia men’s soccer team, coach or player, about Jeff Gal, and he will likely describe the sophomore goalkeeper’s “presence.”
Since coming to Charlottesville in 2010, coach Mike London has maintained a consistent attitude towards building a stronger program: you have to play the best to be the best.
When I was eight years old, I watched my recreation league soccer coach bench a teammate for scoring a goal and jeering the keeper. “Put yourself in her shoes,” we were told. “You wouldn’t want anyone making fun of you, so don’t make fun of them.”
The hype for the Virginia football team coming into this season largely surrounded the promising sophomore quarterback David Watford and the Cavaliers’ star recruit, freshman running back Taquan “Smoke” Mizzell. All that talk, much like the game, was stormed on Saturday against BYU.
The No. 20 Cavaliers put the kibosh on a decidedly sloppy start with a more promising end, emerging from slumber to post a 2-0 victory over the No. 19 Red Storm in their second game of the season.
The Virginia cross country team kicked off their season on Friday by hosting the UVa Duels at Panorama Farms in Earlysville, Va.
Welcoming seven new players as well as another back from injury, the Virginia volleyball team opened their season this weekend, hosting the Jefferson Cup at Memorial Gym. The women defeated Marshall in their first match 3-0 (25-17, 25-18, 29-27) Friday, and continued their success Saturday with a 3-1 win against James Madison (25-23, 23-25, 25-15, 26-24) and a 3-0 win against Montana (25-16, 25-22, 25-23). From the outset, the Cavaliers received great production from the newcomers.
The Cavaliers (2-0) opened up the year with a 3-2 win against Louisville, who was pegged to finish third in the Big East, and followed up that performance with a 4-2 victory against No. 6 Penn State Sunday
The No. 5 Virginia women’s soccer team added two more dominating performances to its resume this weekend, handily defeating ninth-ranked Penn State and Richmond to extend its season-opening unbeaten streak to four games. The Cavaliers outshot their opponents a combined 55 to 17 and allowed just one goal to the Nittany Lions over the weekend.
It’s been a difficult preseason in terms of wading through what proportion of the hype surrounding Virginia football this year might be true and what share was just that — hype. Although one game isn’t a large enough sample to make any definite conclusions, the blurry image of the 2013 Cavaliers became marginally clearer after their gutsy 19-16 win against Brigham Young.
